With a woman I look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Last week, Senator Dick Durbin held a committee hearing in hopes of resurrecting the controversial

equal rights amendment.

While proponents claim the amendment would eliminate discrimination against women, in reality

it would only accelerate the erasure and harm to women.

The skies and language of equality, the current version of the ERA, eliminates legitimate

legal distinctions between men and women.

Women are already harmed by these kinds of policies, like those that allow men to participate

against women in sports and give them access to women's facilities.

It's unlikely the ERA has any chance of passing into law, which Senate advocates of course

know.

That makes questionable just how much of this new push is sincere and how much is grandstanding.

If ratified, the ERA would cement and amplify harmful policies by making them so-called

constitutional.

This much should be obvious.

No law that denies women exist can protect them.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.